Excerpt from Twenty Years of Lawn Tennis Some Personal Memories NO civilised country has been unrepresented on its lawns the centre court has been a clearing-house for the world's talent. First the purely domestic competition, with Renshaw supreme then the rivalry of Ireland, the advent of Ghost Hamilton and Pim, and the latter's brilliant engagements with Baddeley next the coming of the Dohertys - younger when they first stepped on the centre court than Tilden or Johnston - and their almost unbroken reign for a decade the ...
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Excerpt from Twenty Years of Lawn Tennis Some Personal Memories NO civilised country has been unrepresented on its lawns the centre court has been a clearing-house for the world's talent. First the purely domestic competition, with Renshaw supreme then the rivalry of Ireland, the advent of Ghost Hamilton and Pim, and the latter's brilliant engagements with Baddeley next the coming of the Dohertys - younger when they first stepped on the centre court than Tilden or Johnston - and their almost unbroken reign for a decade the first oversea champion in Norman Brookes Gore's stubborn defence against the foreign invader for two years; then Australa'sia's triumph, first through New Zealand and then through Australia again, for six years - ii we count the war's interregnum, for ten; finally, the break throug of America after a siege almost as Old as the championship. It did not need the apotheosis of France at the instance of Mlle Lenglen nor the appearance of Japan in the All Comers final last year nor of Germany in that of 1914, to demonstrate that the lawn tennis champion ship is the most cosmopolitan competition in the whole world. Wimbledon is indeed the university seat of a great game - a game now claiming more votaries than any ball - game invented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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